Carbon Offsets/RECs
Carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates (RECs) are available to help companies meet regulatory and corporate sustainability goals for reducing their carbon footprint. Each REC is equivalent to a single megawatt-hour of electricity generated by a renewable energy source such as solar or wind power. Read articles here about carbon offsets, RECs, green-e certified renewable energy sales, and renewable energy credits.
Intertek Unveils Carbon Offset Program
Intertek has launched a carbon offset program that allows its customers to offset carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions for its auditing services in China. The China program ...
Roundup – Google, Apple, Shell
Google’s Renewable Energy Push
Wall Street Journal
New Zealand launches emissions trading
UPI
Shuttle Express Adds Propane-Fueled Vans to Fleet
BusinessWire...
CDM Attacked in New Report
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) initiative, the UN-backed program to offer carbon offsets, came under a new round of criticism after a report by the ...
Siemon Touts ‘Carbon Negativity’
Siemon says its U.S. and Canada operations have achieved "carbon negativity." The company says it has achieved a carbon reduction that is more than ...
Moving Forestry to the Forefront of the Carbon Market
An estimated 16% of the total global GHG emissions are directly attributed to the destruction of tropical forests. Forest carbon based projects, w...
Roundup – Smithsonian, Hyatt, BMO
Green Key Eco-Rating Program Launched for Hyatt Hotels and Resorts in The U.S., Canada and The Caribbean
Hotel Interactive
An LED That Mimics ...
Roundup – McCandless, Dow Corning, Ingram
Free range eggs contain a little something extra: pollutants
LA Times
Tree-free paper products come from bananas, waste
Scripps Howard News Service
ERA Carbon ...
US Largest Carbon Credit Buyer in 2009
The U.S. was the largest buyer of voluntary carbon credits last year, according to a new report released by Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New ...
RGGI Auction Price Falls, Again
RGGI has announced the results (PDF) of the second quarterly auction of carbon dioxide allowances in 2010. The auction, held Wednesday, June 9th, yielded ...
Tesla Sells Carbon Credits to Honda for $13.8m
Tesla Motors has sold $13.8 million in carbon credits to Honda Motor since 2008, despite not making a profit on its manufacturing business yet, according ...
MEGTEC Builds Methane Abatement System
MEGTEC Systems announced today that it will build the world’s largest methane abatement system to capture and eliminate ventilation air methane (VAM) from the Datong ...
Energy Efficiency Investment Remains Strong Despite Downturn
Investment in energy efficiency remained high last year despite the economic downturn, according to a survey conducted by Johnson Controls. Meanwhile, the Financial Times ...
Consol Energy Taps Methane For Carbon Credits
Consol Energy will become the second coal miner to develop a methane capture and abatement system in the U.S., according to a company ...
Virgin, Alaska Airlines, Continental Get Green Nod From Greenopia
Virgin, Alaska Airlines and Continental won the top tthree spots in Greenopia’s rankings of the most environmentally friendly airlines as the website updated ...
Google to Buy Carbon Offsets from Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project
Google will purchase carbon credits generated by a landfill gas-to-energy project in Berkeley County, S.C., through 2013 as part of its commitment to become ...
Airlines, Environmentalists Clash on Emissions
Tensions between environmentalists and airlines are coming to a head over increasing efforts to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from aircraft. Meanwhile, recent ...
UN Carbon Credits Fall as Officials Plan to Increase Offset Projects
In the midst of sliding European Union (EU) carbon allowances and United Nation carbon credits, UN regulators are getting set to increase carbon offset projects, ...
China May Launch Carbon Market by 2014
China may launch a carbon trading market as soon as 2014, according to a Bloomberg report.
According to the report, the government may ask companies ...
Roundup – MA Names Green Nabes, MIT Cuts Power Use
Deval Patrick Names 35 Green Communities
Boston Globe
MIT to Cut Energy Use by 15 Percent in Three Years
MIT
Kawasaki Heavy: Revving ...
Europe Attempts to Revive Carbon Trading
European regulators and businesses are making an attempt to revive carbon trading through the use of a supplemental “green bond” system that would function alongside the current cap-and-trade scheme, according to a report in the ...
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
